by Dave Bradley | Oct 4, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Parker Posey (Hachette Australia) 2018, 307pp, RRP $32.99, hardback RRP $39.99, eBook RRP $14.99 The first autobiographical volume by Parker (yes, her real name), cool ‘Queen Of The Indies’ back in the ‘90s, is a readable if frustrating outing which is more interested...
by Dave Bradley | Jan 15, 2018 | Book, Books, Reviews
Noah Isenberg (Faber) 2017, 334pp, RRP $49.99 As the years roll by so many movies fade into obscurity, and yet somehow Michael Curtiz’s Casablanca (1942) remains untouchably beloved, and Isenberg here attempts, at great, often delicious length, to find out why. Using...
by Nikki Fort | Mar 9, 2016 | Adelaide Festivals, Reviews, Theatre
State Opera Studio, Tue 8 Mar The huge black space that is the State Opera studio gives a looming sense of the vastness that can be found in country Australia. David Lampard’s striking set, with layers of civilization peeling off a remote house to reveal the fragile...
by Dave Bradley | Nov 12, 2015 | Books, Reviews
Jesse Eisenberg (Atlantic Books) 2015, 273pp, RRP $29.99 Eisenberg, star of Zombieland, The Social Network, Now You See Me and more, has also written regularly for the New Yorker, and this collection of his dark, neurotically funny pieces are a variable bunch that...
by TheClothesLine | Feb 28, 2015 | Adelaide Festivals, Interviews, Reviews
Award Winning comedian Joel Ozborn returns with his “funny and spontaneous” (THE AGE) comedy, which previously “went down a treat in a packed house.” (THE ADVERTISER). “Joel’s style of comedy is in a category not occupied by any other comedian; the spontaneous...
